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Enter Plato; classical Greece and the origins of social theory

by: Gouldner, Alvin Ward, 1920-1980

Publication date: 1965

Topics: Sociale geschiedenis, Sociale wetenschappen, Cultuurgeschiedenis, Greece, Greece -- Civilization, Griechenland (Altertum), Griechenland Altertum, Greece Civilization To 146 B.C, Sociology History Greece, Platon -- Pensée politique et sociale, Plato, Platon, (0427?-0348? av. J.-C.), Sociologie -- Grèce -- Histoire, Sociology -- Greece -- History, Civilization, Civilisation ancienne, Soziologie, Sociology

Publisher: New York, Basic Books

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

ix, 407 pages 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Civil war in the Polis -- The Greek contest system: patterns of culture -- Self and society in Greece -- The war between the cities -- An alternative to politics -- Social diagnosis: Plato's Analysis of social disunity -- Social diagnosis: Lacunae and assumptions in Plato's diagnosis -- Therapeutics: planned social change in Plato's theory -- Therapeutics: law and universalism -- The fatigue of reason and the metaphysics of authoritarianism -- Death and the tragic outlook